Man boasted about murder plan, court told

A South Australian Supreme Court jury has heard a market gardener boasted to friends he would kill three members of a family three days before one of them was shot dead at the Virginia Shopping Centre.

Dragni Encheff, 62, is on trial charged with the 2002 shotgun killing of Vicki Evanoff.

The jury heard Encheff's wife Eva was in a legal dispute with her brother and his wife over their mother's will, which bequeathed the whole of her estate to her son, Dennis Evanoff.

Dennis and Vicki Evanoff owned a newsagency and early morning paper run, at Virginia, west of Adelaide.

On the night of October 11, 2002, Dragni and Eva Encheff visited friends and Encheff said they would see in another few days what would happen in court and he would kill Dennis, Vicki, and her father in Perth.